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Bard and Book

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Bard and Book Publishing represents an incredible new vision for connecting publishers, authors, and readers. How does it work? Those who subscribe to our reader community get access to every creative piece our authors generate, for as long as the reader maintains his membership- at no additional cost to them! The authors in turn receive the vast majority of the funds received by subscribers, allowing the readers to directly support writers. Moreover, the authors receive a share of all the revenue that the publisher receives, as well. There is no better publishing model in the market today for authors.

The readers make out well, too. Not only do they receive 5-10 new short stories or poems each month and every 3-5 months the latest novel one of our authors has completed. That’s less then a dollar per book! Beat that! But we’re not done: in many cases, readers get to ‘watch’ as the stories are actually written, providing feedback throughout the process. For example, an author may make available installments of novels that they are writing and solicit comments.

Readers get exclusive access to the authors in ‘member area’ only sections of the site and instant access to every work that has been produced by the author, past and present. Depending on the subscription plan the reader chooses, the reader may also get one or more soft or hard cover editions of BBP’s books, again, at no further cost to them, but also making sure that BBP isn’t a collection of ‘starving artists’!

Have you ever wondered what lurks in the deep, dark, abyss?
No, we aren't talking about your toilet (hopefully)! We're talking about the human soul, the deepest part of the pit of hell, or the dead eyes of the local zombie. We're talking about the face looking back at you in the mirror, the seductive appeal of secret knowledge, and pleasure at any cost--even your life, or the lives of others.

It is 1978, and there is a genetically engineered monster on the prowl in the waters of Deep Cove in the heart of Texas. Sheriff Blake doesn't know that yet, but he is putting the pieces together. Will he learn the terrible truth before the beast kills again?

A new anthology of poetry by Robert W Cely about the agonies of modern frustration and the search for deeper living. Featured are "The Godless One," "Beneath the Questing Moon," "The Mustard Seed," and the award winning work, "Vespers."

In “Wednesday’s Commute,” the commonplace is highlighted in a group of people getting to work on a bus in the same, old way. But when something very unexpected happens on-board, the commuters are changed forever.

A budding scholar gets sent to a hidden building on the campus to meet Chronos, the keeper (and destroyer) of old facts. What he learns from Chronos will make him re-think everything he thinks he knows.
Is it chronological snobbery, or is it just good scholarship?

So you've found an author or artist that you think is so great you have decided to appoint yourself his or her Biggest Fan. No longer thinking of only your own enjoyment, you want to give back. But how? Author and publisher Anthony Horvath, founder of Bard and Book publishing, gives his advice and shares his experience in the digital marketplace. Authors will want to listen in.

PAIN...In some lives it's the only thing that matters.
Regina is immersed in a cocoon of pain. The teasing of your classmates, the uselessness of her life leaves her numb and in search of pain as the only legitimate feeling. She is alone and spiraling toward disaster until hope steps in.

As a University professor, Riley could see that the girl’s creationist views were nonsense and his evolutionary reasoning was reasoned. What he couldn’t see, was the chain of events about to unfold, leading to a man standing scared and a platypus swimming blind.
Sometimes nature preaches silent sermons.

A new three story anthology from Robert W Cely
Included in this anthology is "Arnulf the Destroyer", a story of a young man struggling with his identity and his place in the world, and the woman who loves him enough to believe in him. Also included are two award-winning stories, "The Faceless One" and "Reading Wine".

In the late 1960's an ambitious and brilliant scientist begins work on a frightening project that will have dire consequences for one small Central Texas town on the shores of Deep Cove. The birth of the Deep Cove monster began as a controlled government experiment, but it will end with terror.

Prairie Dog Pete was the rootinest, tootinest, shaking his bootinest cowpoke in the whole Wide West. He could leg wrestle a cougar with his bare hands, square dance with a pack of grizzlies from sunup to sundown, and drink a cup of sarsaparilla standing on his head while leg wrestling a cougar and square dancing with a grizzly.

The police discover a gruesome scene: a pro-life advocate and his son are found dead in a road-side cabin. Perplexed, and without any obvious explanation, the detectives are forced to turn to the nightly news for clues. As well they should: last night the world learned of a miracle cure... for death itself.

Three stories in one collection.
Buying Time - Quin gets the offer to buy the world’s most precious commodity - Time. But can he afford the price?
Forgotten Songs of Avalain - the tragic downfall of the Lethe, once the most gifted and beautiful creatures of Earth
The Lonely Levite - the last man alive, along with a world-controlling supercomputer struggle to restore a near-extinct humanity.

The door between our world and shadow has been opened.
When he is saved at the last moment from a monstrous attack, Malcolm, a homeless teenager, follows his savior into a foreign, new world of soldiers and monsters, of masters and mad men, where good and evil clash over the fate of the world.

Three waves decimated the earth. In the First Wave: Snow Day, they came with the snow to destroy as many of us as possible. During the Second Wave: A Trip to the Zoo, they took over our government, our armies and our own bodies. And finally, in the Final Wave: A Hike in the Mountains, one of the last members of the human race tries to run for a place to hide and wait out the invasion.

An autistic boy is taken in the middle of the night by something made from blackness that drags him into the attic and through a portal to a different world. His father is not two steps behind, struggling through an alien landscape where every thought, every whim can be turned into reality. As he searches desperately for his son, he faces an enemy intent on stopping him no matter the cost.

Love is a many splendored thing. It's big and splendored and covered with warts and all kinds of stuff, like emotions and big fluffy hair, like the kind you saw in the Eighties or whatever. For a single price, you get not one, not two but four stories about this crazy little thing called Love.

It is America’s Sunday-the day that millions gather to watch the Superbowl. From militant Pittsburg fan Joe to football pacifist Esther and pom-pom baring airhead Janelle Sterns floating somewhere in between, track two characters as they make their way through this special day responding unknowingly to the invitation to the game.

They came with the snow. They came for us.
Roger, left alone in the middle of a blizzard, thought he had a leisurely day off of work. He had no idea he'd be spending the day fighting for his life against the things that came with the snow.
The first wave was meant to weed us out.

Deep Cove: The Party Crasher is a sequel to 2012's initial story about the Deep Cove Monster. The story continues to develop as this time the monster attacks a group of teenagers at a beach party in 1978.

Mordecai is presented with a unique opportunity: the chance to kill Hitler, before he does his worst. A vision from God compels him to take action, but a second vision gives him pause. What will Mordecai do?

What does it look like when an author rage-quits her or his culture? It probably looks a lot like this parody of Fifty Shades of Grey. I'm so sorry. (With special appearances by Justin Bieber and superchef Bobby Flay.)

Paul is a messenger from God, but he is not an angel. At least, he doesn't think he is. In this Pilot Episode, his mission to an Atlanta megachurch brings him face-to-face with an out-of-control Pastor whose crapulence forces him to confront his own tragic past.

A stranger, evidently an executive type, walks into a barber shop. A Southern barber makes conversation and cuts the man's hair. Who is the real person in the story? And who is the one who still can’t seem to find the person reflected in the barber shop mirror?

A pastor of an unresponsive church with the best of his life behind him and little to show for it, Reverend Bob spends his week preparing yet another sermon that will not be heard. Does a life of failed good intentions necessitate a sentence of isolation and futility?

A pair of scientists perform a simple experiment and make not one, but two, earth-shattering discoveries that will transform society as they know it... or will it? It's hard to imagine anything 'better than sex' but this duo found it. Now what?

Hannah and Carla are out to save the world, one person at a time. They are particularly pleased one day to find an old man, oppressed by society, who needs their saving. Never was a man so happy to be saved.